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Work arranged through apps and short-term contracts, typically performed outside conventional full-time employment relationships.
Doctors, lawyers and engineers training AI models earn $80 to $450 an hour, Bloomberg reported, against $10 to $65 for generalist data workers. Mercor's average expert rate, $85 to $108, sits near the bottom of that range.
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UK ministers have opened a consultation on ending bogus self-employment that the Resolution Foundation says may put 900,000 people at risk. Employers that use substitution clauses are the stated target of its proposals.
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Employment lawyers warn Jonathan Reynolds's bogus self-employment crackdown may fall short of the 100,000 workers he said could gain pay rights. With no plan to change tax status, self-employment stays the cheaper classification for employers going into this month's consultation.
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Researchers counted at least 40,000 people in Nairobi writing other people's coursework early this decade. The trade is close to gone, and the work that still pays is rewriting model output by hand until the software cannot tell.
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New York's Office of Worker Power gets a director who ran the United Auto Workers' organizing department and an order pushing three city agencies toward proactive labor investigations, while its budget and headcount stay unstated.
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